<HEAD> <BODY BACKGROUND="" BGCOLOR="#fffff0" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ff" VLINK="#800080" ALINK="#ff0000"> <TABLE BORDER=0 cellspacing=5 WIDTH=100%> <TR> <!-- Row 1 Column 1 --> <TD width=25%> <IMG align=left SRC="mpics/bb-logo.gif" Align=right ALT="people before statistics"> </TD> <!-- Row 1 Column 2 --> <TD align=left> <FONT COLOR=#ff0080><FONT SIZE="+2"><B>POPULATION STATISTICS:<BR>growth of the population per country in a historical perspective, including administrative divisions and principal towns <BR></B></FONT></FONT> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <DL> <DT><CENTER><IMG SRC="mpics/rainbow.gif" ALT="rainbow line"></CENTER><br clear=all> </DL> <P> Here you will find a historical, demographical and statistical overview of the population of all the countries in the world, their administrative divisions and their important cities.<BR><P> The construction and lay-out of this site was set up in April 1999; in January 2002 the compiler completed the first input of all files.<BR> Now a continuing project starts: filling certain gaps in the tables. And this will take much more time than the construction itself; so maybe the work on this site will "never end" ...<BR> <P> <P> © 1999/2006 "Populstat" website: Jan Lahmeyer <P> <DT><IMG SRC="mpics/veerkortlijn.gif" Align=left ALT="feather on line"> Please do not hesitate to e-mail your comments to the compiler: <A HREF="MAILTO:Jan J.Lahmeyer@populstat.info">Jan J.Lahmeyer@populstat.info</A> <P> <HR> <DL> <DT><IMG SRC="mpics/movglobe.gif" Align=left ALT="moving globe"><I><H3> LIST OF THE CONTINENTS</H3></I><br clear=left> <HR> <P> <H2><CENTER><LI><A HREF="Africa/africa.html"><FONT COLOR=#400000>AFRICA</FONT></CENTER></A></H2> <P> <HR> <P> <H2><CENTER><LI><A HREF="Americas/americas.html"><FONT COLOR=#ff0000>The AMERICAS</FONT></CENTER></A></H2> <P> <HR> <P> <H2><CENTER><LI><A HREF="Asia/asia.html"><FONT COLOR=#ff8040>ASIA</FONT></CENTER></A></H2> <P> <HR> <P> <H2><CENTER><LI><A HREF="Europe/europe.html"><FONT COLOR=#0000ff>EUROPE</FONT></CENTER></A></H2> <P> <HR> <P> <H2><CENTER><LI><A HREF="Oceania/oceania.html"><FONT COLOR=#008040>OCEANIA</FONT></CENTER></A></H2> <P> <HR> <P> <H2><CENTER><LI><A HREF="Americas/usastate.htm"><FONT COLOR=#ff0000>USA: per state</FONT></CENTER></A></H2> <P> <HR> <P> <IMG SRC="mpics/Jala-2000-2004.jpg" Align=right ALT="portrait"> <DD><LI>If you're interested you may also take a look at the personal homepage - in Dutch - of the compiler: <A HREF="../jalahome.htm">Jan Lahmeyer</A> <DT><BR><P> <!-<A HREF="http://library.uu.nl/wesp/welcome.htm"><IMG SRC="mpics/wasppink.gif" ALT="back"> Back to the homepage of the Dutch organization, a Working group on cataloguing serial publications: WESP</A>--><BR> <HR> <!---Begin Award of Excellence---> <A HREF=http://www.studysphere.com> <IMG SRC="http://www.studysphere.com/Award.gif" ALT="Population and Demography" BORDER=0> </A> <!---End Award of Excellence---> <HR> <FONT SIZE=-1><I> Thank you for visiting this website.<BR> Last modified on 2006-10-31 by Jan Lahmeyer <FONT SIZE=+0></I> <HR> <P> <DT><IMG SRC="mpics/uilen14.gif" Align=left ALT="14 owls on a line"> <br clear=all> </DL> </BODY>